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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-11-24

-"You were nice, quiet little boy in
Sunday school this morning, Bobby"
said the minister. az was very much
pleased"
.Yes," replied Bobby, "pa said if I'd
behave mysslf in Sunday school needn't
go to ehusoh." - 's5
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-11-24

Two ladies who had not seen each
other for years recently met in the street.
They recognized each other after time,
and their recognition was cordial. so
delighted to see you again. Why, you
are scarcely altered" " So glad, and
how little changed you are. Why, how
long il it since We met 2" "About ten
years" And why have you never been
to see me?" "My dear, just look at the
weather we have had"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-11-24

With its intense itching, dry, hot skin. offrn
broken into painful cracks. and the little waieEy
pimples, often causes indescribabae suffering.
Hoods Sarsaparilla has wondsfulp0wsr over
this disease. II pnrifies the blood and xexpeb
the humor, and the kin, heals Without scar.
Send for book containing many statements Of
cures, TO G. !. Hood b Co, Apolhecahes, Low
ell, Mass. hss ssae sss@k lsss4 ssEsf
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-11-24

An sizes-whits d colored-psinssd in good
style. eAssp, at FLokDEAH Osxzck
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
Ayers Cherry PeCtOraI,

Prepared by DR.. ]. C. Ayers Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
EARLY Use Of Mahogany.

Tits said mahogany was first known
to Europeans through the fact that
Sir Walter Raleigh, when at Trim
idad in 1896, used planks of it to re-
pair one of his vessels. The samples
thus carried to England were much
admired, but for over 100 years it was
put to no practical use. In 1920,
however, a DIR. Gibbons, of London,
received a few mahogany planks
from a friend in the West Indies, and
employed a cabinet maker to work
them up. From that time to the
present, the wood has been a staple
article of commerce. So far the sup.
plies have practically all come from
Spanish America, but there is some
possibility that other sections may
contribute to the supply. Mahogany.
though of an inferior quality, has
been shipped from Africa, and certain
parts of India have proved to be
adapted to its growth. Mahogany
is of slow growth.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03

Pennsylvania workmen were con-
tent with So in summer and SIS in
winter. At Baltimore men were
glad to be hired at IS pense Q day.
None, by the month, asked more
than So. At Fredericksburg the price
of labor was from SIS to 81. In Vir-
ginia white men employed by the year
were given f16 currency; slaves,
when hired, clothed and their mas
ters paid Ct a month. A pound Vir-
ginia money was, in Federal money,
1888, The average rate of wages
the land over was, therefore, S65 a
year, with food and perhaps, lodging.
Out ofthis small sum the workman
must, with his wife's help, maintain
his family.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
A Priceless Blessing

in any house. I speak earnestly because
1 feel earnestly. l have known many
cases of apparently confirmed bronchitis
and cough, with loss of voice, particu-
larry among clergymen and other public
speakers, perfectly cured by this medi-
cine. Faithfully yours,
G. EDWARDS LESTER.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
Cultivation of the Sunhower.

American Agriculturist.
The average product of the seed
per acre of sunfowers is about five
hundred pounds, and these contain
about fifteen per cent of oil. The on
ly commercial use of the seeds is for
expressing the oil, which is used for
burning, soap-making, etc. A small
quantity of the seed is used as a diet
etc food for horses, and as poultry
food. The supply for these uses is
generally home-raised, and does not
enter into commerce. The chief OBJ
stacle to the profitable culture of
Sunflower seeds in this country, is
one not mentioned in the French OBJ
,jections above stated, namely: that
we have in cotton seed, formerly
nearly a waste product and one which,
being produced incidentally, must al
ways be cheap, a material which pro.
produces a vastly better oil than
Sun1ower, and one with which no
crop, grown especially for its oil,
can proftably compete. Besides
these obstacles to the profitable culture
of the Sunfower in this country,
there remains the fact that even q
fair yield can be attained onlylupon
the richest soils, and as it is one of the
most exhaustive of all known crops,
the stems containing an enormous
amount of potash, which is the con.
stituent our soils most need, our farm
ers can not afford to grow Suntiower,
save in a small way for domestic use.
We cannot see a single favorable
feature in Sunfower culture for the
American farmer. 1t is a case OF
Don't"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
Gas Wells near Montreal, Canada.

1t is said that a large vein of gas
has been struck, at a depth Of 400 feet,
at Louisville, a small town on the
north shore of the st. Lawrence, sixty
miles below Montreal, and that an.
other well two miles below Montreal
also shows a large reservoir of gas.
\ Quebec company has been incor.
porated to put down wells within the
supposed gas-bearing district and fur.
nish the gas for manufacturing and
domestic use.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
The Burning of the Museum of Con-
fucius.

London Telegraph.
A contiagration which took place
lately in a remote village of China
has destroyedon of the most remark
able literary and artistic museums in
the world. The edifice in question
was the ancestral home of the family
Of Confucius, built centuries ago, near
Loo, in the province Of Shan-Tung,
In this building, generation after
generation, the male heirs Of the
great Chinese teacher have dWelt in
an unbroken line for $500 years,
bearing the title Of dukes. With
every other family in China, a noble
mans rank must always be lower
than that of his ancestor; for no true
Confucian would presume'to stand
higher than his grandfather, father,
or his elder brother. In the illustri-
Gus "House of Confucius," however,
the lofty title ofduke passes unchang-
ed except when emperor after emper-
or adds by royal decree some new
phrase of honor to the name and line
ofthe famous philosopher. The tomb
of Confucius is a huge mound, over
grown with trees, on the banks of the
River SEE, with carved animals on
each corner and groves of cypress
trees ranged solemnly around. The
relics of his age, and the rich tributes
of worship paid to him by generation
after generation, since 600 B. c., have
all been gathered into this blouse OF
Confucius," lately destroyed. Here
were accumulated precious texts on
stone and marble and commentaries
Of his books, wonderful carvings in
jade and a~labaster, jars and vases Of
porcelain, beyond all price, to say
nothing of jewels and gold and silver
work sent from all parts of the Celes'
tial Kingdom, and even by reveren.
tial ''outer barbarians." All, OF
nearly all, of these treasures are for
ever lost by this deplorable event.
which has fallen upon China as moth
ing short of a national calamity. NJ
liberality on the part of the emperor
or people can replace the vanished
memorials of that remarkable teach
er.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03

Wages in 1900.
McMaster's History.

McMaster's History.
The condition of the wage class of
that day may be well examined; it
is full of instruction for social agita-
tors. In the great cities unskilled
workmen were hired by the day,
bought their own food, and found
their own lodgings. Butin the coun-
try, on the farms, or wherever a hand
was employed on some public work,
they were fed and lodged by the en-
ployer and given a few dollars a
month. On the Pennsylvania canals
the diggers ate the coarsest diet,
were housed in the rudest sheds, and
paid Sc a month from May to No
vember, and So a month from No
vember to May, Hold carriers and
mortar mixers, diggers and choppers,
who, from 1893 TO 1900, labored on
the public buildings and cut the
streets and avenues of Washington
City, received $40 a year, or if they
wished, $50 for all the work they
could perform from March l to De
cember 90. The hours ofwork were
invariably from sunrise to sunset.
Wages at Albany and New York
were 3 shillings, or, as money then
went, 30 cents a day at Lancaster,
IS to SO a month elsewhere in
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
The Bee Clock.

A new French clock contains a
novel application of the magnet. The
clock appears like tambourine with
a circle of flowers painted on its
parchment head. Around the circle
crawl too bees, the larger requiring
twelve hours to complete the circuit,
while the smaller makes it every
hour. The flowers represent hour di-
visions, and the bees, which are of
iron, are moved by two magnets car
ried, just under the membrane, by
the clockwOrk inside the tambOurine.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03

Physicians. who know the value of Shal.
lenberger's Pills prescribe them as their
own remedy. This is hardly fair, but is
strong %testimoney in favor of the medicine,
In one year a wholesale druggist in Balti.
more sent to the proprietors Of the medicine
three gross of empty bottles. The pills had
all been used by one physician in that city.
Nearly as many more by a doctor in Rich.
mond, Va.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
The City Marshal of Iuka, Miss.

The gentleman who sent us the fol-
lowing certificate is the City Marshal
of Iuka, Miss, and is a man of high
character and prominently known
throughout the State. His sOn had
suffered intensely for six years from
an eruption Of the skin, caused by
poison oak. All remedies, itappears,
failed, until, fortunately, S. S. S. was
tried, when the cure was made with
wonderful promptness. Here is what
this gentleman says:
Gentlemen-My son had suffered
for the past six years with an erup-
ton on his legs, caused from poison
oak and cracking Of the feet. Moth
ing seemed to eradicate the poison
from the blood until / gave him one
bottle of Swift's Specific. This en-
tirely cured him, and | heartily
recommend it to the public as sure
cure for poison oak.
Treatieson Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer
3 Atlanta, Ga.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03

a harrow-shaped flock of wild
geese, the Waterbury Conn., Ameri-
can says, went northward over the
city recently. They seemed to at
tend sharply to the business oftravel-
ing until they spied n Of the nu-
merous kites the boys in the northern
portion of the city were flying. This
kite was uncommonly high in the
air, and the geese objected to it. At
least they circled aboutit two or three
times, and then four of their number,
delegated for the purpose, attacked
the kite and tore it into shreds, and
went on their way.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
AN AGRICULTURAL STUDENT,

Now on Sunday to the country
The city chap will go;
And he teaches to the farmer
Every thing he does not know
How to milk the brakes and chickens
And fat the hogs on hay;
Then to NOW his shoats in August
And clip his hens in May.
"Now the horses, too, and cattle
Should meier be fed on steak;
Neither should they eat tomatoes
'Twould be a great mistake.
1t is wrong again on feathers
That in winter they should lie;
Also never in midsummer
Should they eat ice-cIeam and pie.
when you put your oats in pickle
Just mind you sour them thrice;
And, in grinding up potatoes,
To mix them well with ice.
Then a secret, too, for butter,
(Strong as a little oak
Is to keep your milk in water
A month or two at soak"
All these things and several others
Doth he tell unto his host,
Till his eyes they roll in frenzy,
AS if they'd seen a ghost.
Then at night the granger dreameth
Some maniac is loose,
That this learned city rooster
Is from the calaboose.
In the morn the farmer messages
A telegraph to town;
That he's got a crazy patient
"Whu hedn't ort be roun'."
Says the man who comes to get him
"Insane! Well, no-not he!
He's an agricultural student,
But not from Kankakee.
B. A.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03

A sort Of lethargy sometimes takes
possession of the kidneys and blad-
der they should be promptly stimu-
lated to healthful action by the use of
DR.. j. II. McLean's Liver and Kid
ney Balm. Sold by DR.. j. H. Flem-
inc.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
Tonsorial Torment---A Story of Bar
berism.

Every man who has every been in
a barber shop has grown familiar
with the t~onsorial artists bland and
stereotyped "You next, sir" When
you read the following experience of
a gentleman in North Carolina-an
experience which thousands havesuf-
fered-the bland Knight of the Razor
Strop's stereotyped exclamation to
the new conner in his shop, will have
a new and peculiar significance.
Read and remember what to do in
case you should have similar I'M
fortunate experience. Terry writes /:
REIDsvILLE, N. c., March y, 'S7.
Gentlemen-I had barber's itch for
three months. The eruption on my
face was very bad. l couldnOt shave
at all. | took a course Of S. S. S., and
it completely cured me. Today my
skin is smooth and complexion de
notes good blood. II. n. TERRY.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03

Persons who lead a life Of expos
ure are subject to rheumatism, neu-
ralgia and lumbago, ond will find a
valuable remedy in DR., j. H. Nc
Leans Volcanic Oil Liniment; it
will Danish pain and subdue infam-
nation. Sold by DR.. W. II. Fleming,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-03
Ayers Cherry PeCtoraI,

which 1 used moderately and in small
doses) at the first recurrence of a cold
or any chest difficulty, and from which
l invariably found relief. This was
oyer % years ago. With all sorts Of
exposure, in all sorts Of climates, l have
never, to this day, had any cold nor
any affection of the throat or lungs
which did not yield to AYERS CHERRY
PICTORIAL within "a hours.
Of course 1 have allowed my
self to be without this remedy in all my
voyages and travels. Under my own
observation, it has given relief to vast
numbers of persons; while in acute cases
of pulmonary inflammation, such as
Group and diphtheria in children, life
has been preserved, through its effects.
/ recommend its use in light but fire.
quent doses. Properly administered, in
accordance with your directions, it is
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1887-04-30
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-23
THE PAPERS SERVED.

City and Suburban Railway Begins
Action Against the New Company.
The efforts of the City and Suburban rail
way to prevent the new street railroad from
exercising its rights under its charter and
the permission granted by City Council, are
assuming definite shape. 1t was at first re-
ported that the City and Suburban people
proposed to carry their case before the
United States Courts, on the ground that
the State of Georgia had no power to grant
a charter to another street railway, company
to use any of the streets in the city, but it
now appears that the report was in
correct, and that the old company
could not see its way clear in taking such
action, and concluded to proceed in another
way-namely, to make the city of Savan-
nah a party in the case, as stated in the
MORNING NEWS few days ago.
Yesterday the papers in the case were
served on the attorneys of the Rural Resort
railroad. The procedure is considered
somewhat peculiar as the certiorari makes
the City Council a court, as il were, aud APP
peals from its action in granting a
petition to the Rural Resort Company, to
the Superior Court. The papers in
the case were prepared by Frank II. Miller,
Esq, a well-known lawyer of Augusta, who
has been engaged by the old street railroad
company
The case will not be heard until the March
term of the Superior Court. 1t is reported
however, that writ of injunction win be
applied for at an early day, and under the
usual rule in such matters it will be heard
without delay.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-23
Local Personal.

Mr.. F. E. Twitty, of Atlanta, is in the
city.
DR.. Saxon of Valdosta. is registered at
the Marshall.
R. ]. Wiles of Atlanta, was at the Sore
ven yesterday.
Miss Laura Lester is home from school to
spend the holidays.
Charles F. Garrett of Palatka, Fla, is at
the Marshall House
d. B. Woodruff, ESQ, of Macon, was at
the Screven yesterday.
Henry B. Mays of Atlanta, is registered
at the Marshall House.
Dr. Z. H. Pipkin and daughter, of Ten
nile, are at the Pulaski House.
c. G. Anderson, Savannah agent of the
Ocean Steamship Company, went upto Au-
gusta last night.
Mrs S. c. Neufville and daughters were
among the Atlantians registered at the
Screven yesterday.
Mr. ]. Paul johnson, Chief Clerk in the
custom house, left yesterday for Griffin,
where he will spend the holidays.
r. H. Brown, Carl Dahl, Monroe Z. Og-
den and j. Monroe Ogden were among the
Maconites at the Screven House yesterday
NJ. J. Solomons, Esq, left last night for
Admission, Ala, to spend the holidays with
his son, Mr.. N, E. Solomons, who is now
doing a 1ourishing business in that new
city.
R. w. Grubb, Esq, of the Darien Tim
Der Gazette, came up to Savannah yester-
day on the steamer st. Nicholas. He re-
turned home last evening. He reports his
city fourishing and its future prospects
bright.
Mr.. George w. Alley, the Assistant
Superintendent of the City and Suburban
railway, received telegram yesterday an
nouncing the death of his father, Craw-
ford Alley, Esq, in his nth year, at
Waverly, Va.
Misses Dollie and Fannie Dub, Miss N
Ferst, Miss Marie Blum and Miss B. Aarons
arrived from the North last night on the City
OF Augusta to spend the holidays They
are students at Mount st. Vincent's school,
on the Hudson.
Oswald Wilson, Esq, editor of the Farm
ers' Alliance, Mariana, Fla, and Presi-
dent of the order known as the Florida
Farmers Alliance, was in the city yesterday
en- route for home. He has been in atten-
dance at the meeting at Fort Valley to Or
ganize the Georgia Farmers Alliance.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-23
Death of Mrs. A. I. Branhana.

MRS A. Iverson Branham died in Bruins
wick Monday afternoon of consumption
Mrs. Branham was born in Eatonton, and
was the daughter OF the late Joseph A.
Turner, who ran the only strictly country
newspaper ever published in the United
States, its Office of publication being a
dozen miles from any town or village, and
in which Joel Chandler Harris received his
first journalistic training Mrs. Branham
was woman of superior qualities of heart
and mind, and but for her devotion to home
duties, could have attained, if she had so
desired, considerable reputation as a writer
Her husband was a resident of Savannah
for several months within the past year,
and Mrs. Branhani formed here a mum er
of acquaintance, who VIII regret to 'ar of
her death. She was buried III Eatonton on
Wednesday.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-23
RIVER AND HARBoR NOTES.
Happenings Among the Shipping and
Along the Wharves.

The tug Cambria left last night with the
British bark Adeheid and Bertha in tow for
Brunswick.
The schooner Helen A. Chase will be
tewed to New York, her destination, by the
tug Cynthia as soon as the latter returns
from Doboy, where she went with the Nor
wegian bark Niobe in tow last night.
The schooner Vineyard, Capt Sickles,
was sunk in Ossabaw sound on Monday.
She has been partly raised, but has still con-
siderable water in her. This is the second
time that this vessel has been sunk and
raised.
The steam yacht Myth, Captain Allen w.
Wood, arrived here Wednesday night. She
put into Saggart's coal wharf, where she
,ook on a supply of coal and wood. Captain
Allen has his family on board and the
yacht is bound for Jacksonville and st.
Augustine, where she will winter. She left
yesterday afternoon.
The Norwegian brig Amykos, which was
condemned several days ago, was sold at
auction yesterday morning to Mr.. James NJ.
Ward for 500. She will be thoroughly
overhauled and put in a seaworthy con-
dition. Arrangements are being perfected
for the reshipment of her cargo on another
vessel for its destination, London.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-23
FIXING UP THE TAX LAW.
The City Council Discussing Next
Years Expenditures.

The City Council Discussing Next
Years Expenditures.
The Council met last night and worked
in caucus until II 80 o'clock over the tax
ordinance IL then adjourned to the Coun-
Gil chamber, when the following business
was taken up:
The petition of the Savannah and Tybee
railroad for permission to run street rail
read from the foot Of Liberty street to Ran
dolph, thence to President, thence to Wright
square, around Wright square TO York or
State to President street and thence to the
Central railroad depot, was referred TO the
Street and Lane Committee. The petition
stated that such line would be necessary to
the economical operation of the Tybee rail
road.
The ordinance providing for the estab-
lishment of a scavenger department was
read for the first time. 1t provides for the
purchase of all necessary supplies and the
election of Superintendent.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-23
.SIFTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

Dashes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief ragraphs-Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
There were three arrests yesterday for
disorderly conduct
Charlotte Thompson played Jane Eyre"
before fair audience at the Theatre last
night.
There were seven cases in Police Court
yesterday morning and the aggregate of
fines was $l1.
Messrs. Hirsch Bros. sent to the MORN
ING NEWS office some very fine Georgia
pecan nuts grown below Darien.
There will be a meeting or the Cotton Elk
change at II o'clock to-day to determine
whether the Exchange shall be closed IRON
tomorrow night until Tuesday.
The French doll and outfit ratified last
night at j. B. Fernandez's store for the
benefit of the orphan girls of St Mary's
Home, was won by Miss Nellie Hughes.
A telephone alarm was sent to Fremen's
Hall at 9:35 o'clock last night, and engine
No. 3 and the hook and ladder company re-
sponded. The fire was only the burning OF
a chimney in house at the corner Of York
and Habersham streets.
The names of four gentlemen are men
toned in connection with the vacancy in the
Board of Aldermen: S. p. Hamilton, c. H.
Dorsett, j. r. Sheldon and F. D. Blood
worth. Either of them would fill the place
with "credit to himself and honor to the
city"
The William J. Campbell Club of the
First African Baptist church, on Bryan
street. inaugurated bazar last night at the
Ford's Opera House for the benefit of the
church building fund. The fair will con-
tinue two weeks and will be open both
afternoon and evening
The Jasper Festival Headquarters over
Olmstead & Co.'S banking house, have been
fitted up and are now occupied by the COM
mittee. Secretary Rockwelrs office hours
at present are from 8 a. m. to 2 D. m, and
from to $3.50 p. m. The rooms are lighted
with electricity, and q telephone will be put
in the Secretary's office to-day.